How many birds in your garden today?

[SueA]

Wellie as Capsid says it does sound like a redstart & they do breed in your part of the world. I found this site which has some photos of them taken this last week at a farm in Powys towards the bottom of the page, lovely birds, wish we had some!
Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)

[lindyloo]

tits,thrushes, pidgeons, and a blackbird, who is brave and gets very cross if i go in there. i think it has been with us for a few years now. yesterday, one of them pulled up my lettuce, just as they are finally forming the heads, so i am not very happy with the winged population today1 ( have wired the lettuce now)

[SueA]

This morning I have a Magpie in my binbags. But on a better note (I think) a pair of rooks are croaking sweetly on my chimney Yesterday a brown bird a little smaller than a starling was singing so beautifully at the top of the birch tree, I'm not sure what it was though, any ideas? It's always at the top of the tree especially after rain.

Is it maybe a song thrush if it's very high up & you can't see the speckles on it's chest clearly? They're smaller than mistle thrushes & don't have such big obvious speckles so it's possible.

[wellie]

"Extraordinarily Good Work Capsid and SueA" wrote Wellie with her Wildlife Teacher Hat on.....
Absolutely BANG ON with your deductions from my, rather brilliant description?!
I'm thrilled to know what it is, so Thank You both. I'm Pretty Pants at researching stuff on the computer, not having a technological fibre in my body, so I just do what I'm best at.... in the garden, gardening and appreciating my countryside.

[Capsid]

Do I get a gold star? Or should that be a redstar(t)?

[burnie]

For those who might be interested,the RSPB are running a make nature count from the 5th to the 13th of june,they've sent me a form,or I can fill one in online.They want to know what's in my garden,not just birds.

[wellie]

Capsid,
I'm favouring 'Smartie-Points', and if you have no objections, I'm going to award you A Whole Blue Smartie. Would that be Cool?

[Nicos]

Wellie- we have them here- and it was only last year that I found out what they were called ( courtesy of scarey)
Nice little things aren't they???

[Topcat36]

House Martins about 5 ,
The usual suspects sparrows etc
a Heron on the pond , not mine but withing a few yards of my house , oh i forgot the bloody geese which also make me jump when they fly over so bloody low . Red kites galore the breeding program only up the road from where i live , you cant let your guinea pig out here lol. Some yellow tits , dont google that by the way if safe search isn't on
And a newt, technically not a bird tho